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Call for a CAR Tribunal

This past week UN investigators called
for the establishment of a war crimes tribunal to investigate crimes against
humanity committed in the Central African Republic (CAR).The establishment of tribunals to investigate
serious crimes in a particular theater of war is not a new concept, and legal
and historical researchers investigating the history of major war crimes
tribunals may be interested in the following resources:

The first such international tribunal was
established following the end of World War II.The International Military Tribunal for the Trial of German Major War
Criminals, more popularly known as the Nuremberg Trials, was established in
1945 to prosecute the captured leadership of the Nazi party.Researchers looking for the records of this
tribunal can obtain the official
records from the Library of Congress, various trial documents
from the Yale Law School’s Avalon Project, and trial transcripts
from the Hathi Trust.

In 1993, the International Criminal Tribunals for
the Former Yugoslavia was established to prosecute criminals from the Yugoslav
Wars of the 1990s.Interested researchers
can consult the tribunal’s official website
for items such as the official court
records, indictments
and ongoing
proceedings.The tribunal expects
to finish its last appeals this year.

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